2021 4 Hours of Barcelona explained

The 2021 4 Hours of Barcelona was an endurance sportscar racing event that was held on 18 April 2021, as the first round of the 2021 European Le Mans Series.

In LMP2, the race was won by the #41 Team WRT run Oreca 07-Gibson, driven by Robert Kubica, Ye Yifei, and Louis Delétraz.

In LMP3, the race was won by the #19 Cool Racing run Ligier JS P320, driven by Matthew Bell, Niklas Krütten and Nicolas Maulini.

In GTE, the race was won by the #80 Iron Lynx run Ferrari 488 GTE Evo, driven by Matteo Cressoni, Miguel Molina and Rino Mastronardi.

Qualifying

Qualifying Result

Pole position in each class are marked in bold.^{[1] [2]}

Pos	Class	No.	Team	Lap Time	Grid
1	LMP2	26	G-Drive Racing	1:31.788
2	LMP2	41	Team WRT	1:31.867
3	LMP2	65	Panis Racing	1:32.282
4	LMP2	21	DragonSpeed USA	1:32.402
5	LMP2	32	United Autosports	1:32.578
6	LMP2	22	United Autosports	1:32.725
7	LMP2	28	IDEC Sport	1:32.746
8	LMP2	34	Racing Team Turkey	1:33.286
9	LMP2	25	G-Drive Racing	1:33.359
10	LMP2	37	Cool Racing	1:33.364
11	LMP2	29	Ultimate	1:33.372
12	LMP2	30	Duqueine Team	1:33.724
13	LMP2	17	IDEC Sport	1:34.107
14	LMP2	24	Algarve Pro Racing	1:34.110
15	LMP2	35	BHK Motorsport	1:34.550
16	LMP2	39	Graff Racing	1:34.747
17	Innovat	84	Association SRT41	1:37.616
18	LMP3	3	United Autosports	1:39.162
19	LMP3	15	RLR MSport	1:39.183
20	LMP3	2	United Autosports	1:39.224
21	LMP3	4	DKR Engineering	1:39.341
22	LMP3	13	Inter Europol Competition	1:39.385
23	LMP3	8	Graff Racing	1:39.691
24	LMP3	20	Team Virage	1:39.743
25	LMP3	18	1 AIM Villorba Corse	1:39.915
26	LMP3	19	Cool Racing	1:40.036
27	LMP3	5	MV2S Racing	1:40.119
28	LMP3	9	Graff Racing	1:40.236
29	LMP3	14	Inter Europol Competition	1:40.249
30	LMP3	7	Nielsen Racing	1:40.261
31	LMP3	12	Racing Experience	1:40.424
32	LMP3	11	Eurointernational	1:40.437
33	LMP3	6	Nielsen Racing	1:40.643
34	GTE	77	Proton Competition	1:41.892
35	GTE	80	Iron Lynx	1:42.041
36	GTE	83	Iron Lynx	1:42.266
37	GTE	93	Proton Competition	1:42.566
38	GTE	95	TF Sport	1:42.769
39	GTE	66	JMW Motorsport	1:42.842
40	GTE	55	Spirit of Race	1:42.977
41	GTE	60	Iron Lynx	no time

Race

Race Result

Class winners are marked in bold. - Cars failing to complete 70% of the winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).

	Class		Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tyre		Time/Retired
					Engine
1	LMP2	41	Team WRT	Louis Delétraz Robert Kubica Ye Yifei	Oreca 07		141	4:00:43.527
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
2	LMP2	65	Panis Racing	Julien Canal Will Stevens Gabriel Aubry	Oreca 07		141	+22.125 s
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
3	LMP2	22	United Autosports	Philip Hanson Jonathan Aberdein Tom Gamble	Oreca 07		141	+1:29.570 s
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
4	LMP2	26	G-Drive Racing	Roman Rusinov Franco Colapinto Nyck de Vries	Oreca 07		141	+1:34.085 s
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
5	LMP2	29	Ultimate	Matthieu Lahaye Jean-Baptiste Lahaye François Heriau	Oreca 07		140	+1 lap
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
6	LMP2	30	Duqueine Team	Tristan Gommendy René Binder Memo Rojas	Oreca 07		140	+1 lap
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
7	LMP2	25	G-Drive Racing	John Falb Rui Andrade Pietro Fittipaldi	Oreca 07		140	+1 lap
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
8	LMP2	28	IDEC Sport	Paul Lafargue Paul-Loup Chatin Patrick Pilet	Oreca 07		140	+1 lap
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
9	LMP2	32	United Autosports	Job van Uitert Nico Jamin Manuel Maldonado	Oreca 07		139	+2 laps
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
10	LMP2	37	Cool Racing	Alexandre Coigny Nicolas Lapierre Antonin Borga	Oreca 07		139	+2 laps
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
11	LMP2	24	Algarve Pro Racing	Diego Menchaca Ferdinand Habsburg Richard Bradley	Oreca 07		139	+2 laps
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
12	LMP2	17	IDEC Sport	Dwight Merriman Kyle Tilley Ryan Dalziel	Oreca 07		139	+2 laps
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
13	LMP2	35	BHK Motorsport	Francesco Dracone Sergio Campana Markus Pommer	Oreca 07		138	+3 laps
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
14	LMP2	39	Graff Racing	Vincent Capillaire Maxime Robin Arnold Robin	Oreca 07		136	+5 laps
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
15	LMP3	19	Cool Racing	Nicolas Maulini Matt Bell Niklas Krütten	Ligier JS P320		133	+8 laps
					Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8
16	LMP3	15	RLR MSport	Michael Benham Alex Kapadia Malthe Jakobsen	Ligier JS P320		133	+8 laps
					Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8
17	LMP3	13		Martin Hippe Ugo de Wilde Julien Falchero	Ligier JS P320		133	+8 laps
					Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8
18	LMP3	18	1 AIM Villorba Corse	Alessandro Bressan Andreas Laskaratos Damiano Fioravanti	Ligier JS P320		133	+8 laps
					Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8
19	LMP3	4	DKR Engineering	Laurents Hörr Alain Berg	Ligier JS P320		133	+8 laps
					Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8
20	LMP3	6	Nielsen Racing	Nicholas Adcock Austin McCusker Max Koebolt	Ligier JS P320		133	+8 laps
					Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8
21	LMP3	20	Team Virage	Rob Hodes Garett Grist C. R. Crews	Ligier JS P320		132	+9 laps
					Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8
22	LMP3	14	Inter Europol Competition	Julius Adomavicius Alessandro Bracalente Mattia Pasini	Ligier JS P320		132	+9 laps
					Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8
23	GTE	80	Iron Lynx	Matteo Cressoni Rino Mastronardi Miguel Molina	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo		132	+9 laps
					Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8
24	LMP3	7	Nielsen Racing	Anthony Wells Colin Noble	Ligier JS P320		132	+9 laps
					Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8
25	LMP3	3	United Autosports	Jim McGuire Duncan Tappy Andrew Bentley	Ligier JS P320		131	+10 laps
					Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8
26	LMP3	11	Eurointernational	Andrea Domedari Mateusz Kaprzyk	Ligier JS P320		131	+10 laps
					Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8
27	GTE	77	Proton Competition	Christian Ried Jaxon Evans Gianmaria Bruni	Porsche 911 RSR-19		131	+10 laps
					Porsche M97/80 4v DOHC 4.2 L F6
28	GTE	55	Spirit of Race	Duncan Cameron Matt Griffin David Perel	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo		131	+10 laps
					Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8
29	GTE	83	Iron Lynx	Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting Manuela Gostner	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo		130	+11 laps
					Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8
30	GTE	60	Iron Lynx	Claudio Schiavoni Giorgio Sernagiotto Paolo Ruberti	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo		130	+11 laps
					Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8
31	GTE	93	Proton Competition	Michael Fassbender Felipe Fernández Laser Richard Lietz	Porsche 911 RSR-19		130	+11 laps
					Porsche M97/80 4v DOHC 4.2 L F6
32	GTE	66	JMW Motorsport	Jody Fannin Andrea Fontana Rodrigo Sales	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo		130	+11 laps
					Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8
33	GTE	95	TF Sport	John Hartshorne Ross Gunn Ollie Hancock	Aston Martin Vantage AMR		128	+13 laps
					Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8
34	Innovat	84	Association SRT41	Takuma Aoki Nigel Bailly Pierre Sancinéna	Oreca 07	?	127	+14 laps
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
35	LMP3	8	Graff Racing	Eric Trouillet Sébastien Page David Droux	Ligier JS P320		127	+14 laps
					Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8
36	LMP3	2	United Autosports	Wayne Boyd Rob Wheldon Edouard Cauhaupe	Ligier JS P320		125	+16 laps
					Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8
37	LMP3	9	Graff Racing	Matthias Kaiser Rory Penttinen	Ligier JS P320		119	+22 laps
					Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8
38	LMP2	34	Racing Team Turkey	Salih Yoluç Charlie Eastwood Harry Tincknell	Oreca 07		116	+25 laps
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
39	LMP3	12	Racing Experience	David Hauser Gary Hauser Tom Cloet	Ligier JS P320		115	+26 laps
					Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8
DNF	LMP3	5	MV2S Racing	Christophe Cresp Fabien Lavergne Adrien Chila	Ligier JS P320		122	+13 laps
					Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8
DNF	LMP2	21	DragonSpeed USA	Henrik Hedman Ben Hanley Ricky Taylor	Oreca 07		7	+136 laps
					Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
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Notes and References

1. https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/Barcelona-2021-04-18-34602.html?sort=Grid
2. Web site: European Le Mans Series 2021 4 Hours of Barcelona Classification | Motorsport Stats. motorsportstats.com.
3. https://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/Barcelona-2021-04-18-34602.html?sort=Results